Bob George wrote:
>
> "Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > Recent raps in the trade journals imply that the
> > proficiency tests are in demand, and that college
> > degrees are often being ignored. Course, if what
> > you want is an 'education', college is nice, but
> > then so is a reading list of classics, which is
> > gonzo cheaper. The dialogue of the classroom has
> > always been seen as instructive, but now, so are
> > these lists. choices are more complex now.
>
> Yeah, but the partying's definitely better in college. Hell, stay in as long
> as you can and enjoy it. You'll never have the chance again.
stay in as long as you can afford it. I had a lotta
elder cousins who had the whole thing paid for by
the GI bill. It was harder in my time, but lotsa
guys finished without much of a student loan bill.
Now, the debt service cost is so high that some have
abandoned college, and successfully sought certification
in online and other forms of proficiency testing. This
works really well in software and hardware design. But
trying to study biology, digitally disecting organisms
without the collegiate lab,... now that leaves something
to be desired.
The disection of a pc or server is far simpler; there is
not nearly the variety seen in organic life forms. The
vendors themselves offer some free training on how to
use and maintain their equipment. Colleges routinely
require proficiency in another Indo-European language,
but the ones the high tech employers care about are more
like assy, C++, Pascal, Perl,..
I dont imagine that people are going to quit going to
college; I had a grand time there myself. But I was not
faced with such an outrageous bill for the party after
I graduated. Not that some colleges are not adapting.
I once did a year at RIT in Rochester NY, the 'SAIS'
or School of Applied Industrial Sciences, where they
gave hands on training with electronic lab equipment,
automated process control, robot design and maintenance,
et al. RIT worked closely with Kodak, Xerox, IBM, and
several other high tech heavies who have R&D facilities
in upstate NY, to develop a program to deliver technicians
such as you suggest with just one year of intensive training.
I daresay it was something less than 5% of the total student
body, out of one school among many in the area. Then too,
colleges are still hidebound with the classic patriarchic
pyramidal power structure, hamstrung by office politics and
personal vendettas against any students who see thru the
pretense of tenured fools. The very impersonality of the
online training and the proficiency exams avoids that whole
problem, where the thing that counts, the only thing that
counts, is actual talent and skill.
Then it becomes a question of who can get to the Global
market on time and under budget. The Gobal market is just
as impersonal.
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